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DATE-17-03-2024

Keladi Chennamma* was the queen of Keladi Kingdom in Karnataka. 

She was from the Lingayatha community. Chennamma married King Somashekara Nayaka in 1667 CE. After Somashekhara Nayaka's death in 1677, Chennamma efficiently handled the administration of the Keladi Nayaka dynasty. During her reign of 25 years, she repelled the advance of the Mughal Army led by Aurangzeb from her military base in the kingdom of Keladi located in Sagara, Karnataka, India. She adopted Basavappa Nayaka, one of her close relatives who succeeded as Hiriya Basappa Nayaka. She also rendered a trade agreement with the Portuguese involving commodities like pepper and rice. Channagiri is named after her.

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😀Thought of the day😃

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 Where can we go to find God, if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. 

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Why does distilled water not conduct electricity whereas rain water does?* 

Distilled water is the pure form of water. It is neutral in nature and also it doesn't dissociate into ions and it has negligible ionization.

Electricity needs ions to move in an electrolyte, which is not provided by water.

Rain water on the other hand, contains dissolved salts, acids and even few basic particles. These particles dissociate in water into ions which help in conduction of electricity.

So, Rain water conduct electricity.

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HOW DOES WHALES AND DOLPHINS BREATHE ⁉ 🐳🐬* 

Whales and dolphins are mammals and breathe air into their lungs, just like we do. They cannot breathe underwater like fish can as they do not have gills. They breathe through nostrils, called a blowhole, located right on top of their heads.

This allows them to take breaths by exposing just the top of their heads to the air while they are swimming or resting under the water. After each breath, the blowhole is sealed tightly by strong muscles that surround it, so that water cannot get into the whale or dolphin’s lungs. When a dolphin surfaces for air, he breathes out (exhales) first and then breathes in (inhales) fresh air; it only takes a fraction of a second for the dolphin to do this.  

They have high amounts of haemoglobin and myoglobin to store oxygen in their blood and muscles, can reduce their heart rate and even shut down some organs when they dive to help them survive in the deep

DATE- 18-03-2024

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Rani Rudrama Devi , or Rudradeva Maharaja, was a monarch of the Kakatiya dynasty in the Deccan Plateau from 1263 until her death in 1289 while fighting Ambadeva. Virabhadra is virtually undocumented and played no part in her administration. The couple had two daughters.

Rudrama Devi married Virabhadra, a member of a minor branch of the Chalukya dynasty,

Rudrama Devi faced challenges from the Eastern Ganga dynasty and the Yadavas soon after beginning her rule. 

She was one of the very few women to rule as monarchs in India and promoted a male image in order to do so. She was succeeded by Prataparudra, a son of one of her daughters

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why ostrich cannot fly* 

Ostriches, emus, cassowaries, rheas, and kiwis can't fly. Unlike most birds, their flat breastbones lack the keel that anchors the strong pectoral muscles required for flight. Their puny wings can't possibly lift their heavy bodies off the ground.

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 सर्वे क्षयान्ता निचयाः पतनान्ताः समुच्छ्रयाः।

संयोगा विप्रयोगान्ता मरणान्तं च जीवितम्॥ - महाभारतम्- -स्त्रीपर्व

sarvē kṣayāntā nicayāḥ patanāntāḥ samucchrayāḥ।

saṃyōgā viprayōgāntā maraṇāntaṃ ca jīvitam॥

Meaning : All things will ultimately get destroyed, what rises comes down.

All unions end in separation, all lives end in death.

भावार्थ: सारे संग्रहों का अंत उनके क्षय में ही है। भौतिक उन्नतियों का अंत पतन में ही है। सारे संयोगों का अंत वियोग में ही है। इसी प्रकार संपूर्ण जीवन का अंत मृत्यु में ही होने वाला है।

Wall- भित्ति , भित्तिका 

भित्तिका नीला अस्ति।

The wall is blue in colour

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HOW PEARLS FORMED 

 Instead, a pearl forms when an irritant such as a wayward food particle becomes trapped in the mollusk. The animal senses the object and coats it with layers of aragonite ("ah-RAG-uh-nite") and conchiolin ( "KON-kee-uh-lin"). These two materials are the same substances the animal uses to build its shell.

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DATE:21/03/2024

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 The word Punjab is a compound of two Persian words, panj (“five”) and ab (“water”), thus signifying the land of five waters, or five rivers (the Beas, Chenab, Jhelum, Ravi, and Sutlej).

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What causes hiccups?

A hiccup is a sudden, involuntary contraction (spasm) of the diaphragm muscle. Common causes of hiccups include eating too quickly, eating or drinking too much. Home remedies for hiccups include: holding your breath, drinking a glass of water quickly, pulling hard on your tongue, biting on a lemon, gargling with water, and using smelling salts.

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स्वभावो नोपदेशेन शक्यते कर्तुमन्यथा । 

सुतप्तमपि पानीयं पुनर्गच्छति शीतताम् ॥ 

svabhāvō nōpadēśēna śakyatē kartumanyathā ।

sutaptamapi pānīyaṃ punargacchati śītatām ॥

Meaning: It is not possible to change a persons habits or nature by advice or instruction. Just like a well-heated drink always turns cold in the course of time.

भावार्थ: किसी के स्वभाव या आदत को सिर्फ सलाह देकर बदलना संभव नहीं है, जैसे पानी को गरम करने पर वह गरम तो हो जाता है, लेकिन पुनः स्वयं ठंडा tuहो जाता है।

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रामो वनं गच्छति। 

rāmo vanaṃ gacchati.

Rama goes to the forest

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How Is Steel Made? 

To make steel, a iron ore is heated and melted in furnaces where the impurities are removed and carbon added.

Today, most steel is made using one of two processes:

A. Blast Furnace

B. Electric Arc Furnace (EAF)

Blast furnaces use mainly raw materials (iron ore, limestone and coke) with some scrap steel to make steel, whereas Electric Arc Furnaces use mainly scrap steel.

What Is A Blast Furnace?

The blast furnace was invented by an Englishman named Henry Bessemer in the mid 1850s. Bessemer devised a way of producing steel by blowing air through molten iron to oxidize the material and separate impurities.

The modern blast furnace is a large steel shell shaped like a cylinder and lined with heat-resistant brick. Iron ore, coke and limestone are fed into the furnace from the top and gradually sink down towards the bottom, getting hotter as they descend. In the top half of the furnace, gas from the burning coke releases oxygen from the iron ore. In the bottom half of the furnace, limestone starts to react with the impurities in the ore and coke forming a slag.

At the bottom of the furnace, temperatures reach over 3000 Fahrenheit. The molten slag floats on top of the molten steel, allowing it to be drained via a slag notch in the furnace. The molten steel is released from the hearth of the furnace through a tap hole.

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DATE:22/03/2024

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 Why do we have silent letters in the English language ?* 

In an alphabetic writing system, a silent letter is a letter that, in a particular word, does not correspond to any sound in the word's pronunciation. Silent letters are the ghosts of pronunciations past. The word 'knight', with its silent 'k', and silent 'gh', is cognate with the German word for servant, 'knecht', where every letter is pronounced. 

 Process occurs when we borrow words from other languages. 'Tsunami' was borrowed from Japanese, and 'psychology' was borrowed from Greek. The initial consonant sounds in these words are not used in English, at least to start words. English ends words with those clusters, though: 'hats', 'chops'. The initial 'p' in 'psychology' (and 'pterodactyl', and other words from Greek) has become silent in English. Some English speakers – not all – simplify the word 'tsunami' by not pronouncing the initial 't', so that it fits in with the phonological rules of English.

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Bag ; प्रसेव:, स्यूत:

स्यूते किम् अस्ति ?

What is there in the bag?

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क्रमश: {kramash:} = RESPECTIVELY

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How does water come from mountains?

Mountains are often called nature's water towers. They intercept air circulating around the globe and force it upwards where it condenses into clouds, which provide rain and snow. Mountains also store water in various ways, including the formation of snow and ice.

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💁🏻‍♂‍ GK TODAY 

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22 March – World Water Day 

On 22 March, World Water Day is observed annually to raise awareness about the importance of freshwater and advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.

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 BORN TODAY 🐣💐

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Thirukkurungudi Vengaram Sundram Iyengar (22 March 1877 – 28 April 1955) was an Indian industrialist and automobile pioneer. In 1911, he founded T. V. Sundram Iyengar & Sons, a bus company which later diversified into automobile production and emerged as the parent company of the TVS Group, one of India's biggest business conglomerates. With his humble beginning as a lawyer, he grew into one of the most successful industrialists of his time 

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